Dangerous Agricultural / Forestry Vehicles

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Can't quite fathom what you're saying there Bob! Did chuckle at the 'back to derail' approach though!!

 

At the risk of "Re-Railing" the original topic:

 

http://www.hse.gov.uk/agriculture/pdf/fatal1314.pdf

 

Page 5/6 interesting stats for transport related fatalities....

[TRADITIONAL LOGGERS]

MOT's are due to be phased in on Agricultural/Forestry vehicles and towed vehicles as the weights and speeds are going to be increased soon.

[GA Groundcare]

That'll be interesting! Will this be carried out through authorised ag engineering companies on site. Will slower machinery ie companies and foragers be exempt?

[Hardyspicer]

what i dont understand is how they will test tractors and trailers they might say to bring them to an hgv centre but for some it would mean driving machinery many miles just to get to one. The only logical solution i can think of is to have an inspector do an on site test do a visaul check and then run it up the road test the steering then jump on the brakes etc

[TRADITIONAL LOGGERS]

As I understand from the article all Agricultural vehicles over a certain weight and speed will have to be tested and all trailers over 750KG unladen. Might be Agricultural places to do testing but no info on that.

[agrimog]

never going to hapen, to many lords are big landowners/farmers, and the cost to them will not be acceptable, plus how can you "mot" a vehicle when there are no standards to test to, do you ban all older tractors off the road, do you only allow "newish" trailers, what about towed implements, to many problems, the law as it stands is clear, no suspension, no exceed 20mph, if more fines were imposed for breaking it, the farming comunity would start to comply

[Qvatrees]

Derailing it again; I'm very pro farming. I blame the super markets.

 

They force the price down so low that an average sized farmer can't make money and small farms never get going. This forces (along with a few other "green" policies) the subsidy system to ensure that we can basically feed our selfs as a nation

 

Not only do they force the price down on food, because they literally employ millions of people they help set the wage of the country. All these large companies like tesco and morrisons have a huge amount of swing and by refusing to pay a higher minimum wage to thier employees you suddenly find yourself in a position where your forced to subside every home under £40k?? A year, with working family tax credits, child benefits, housing benifits etc etc etc because other wise homes on a wage of less than £20k a year will just starve to death.

 

So the government subsidise the food production so the super markets can buy it cheap................and then they subsidise society so the supermarkets can sell food expensive.

 

Think on it

Edited January 10, 2015 by Qvatrees

[Qvatrees]

And just to stir the sh1t pot, how many on here complaining about farm subsidies don't claim any child benefits etc that are available to them "because their rich enough"